I had my first negative comment yesterday and it generated more traffic and comments on my blog than anything else in the past month.  Okay, now I understand why politicians use negative campaign tactics – it gets people’s attention!

I really thought the post was relatively benign but I guess I could kinda sorta maybe see how 46% of America might get offended.  But it clearly wasn’t my intention. Here’s a little snippet if you didn’t catch it yesterday:

In response to my post Kelly said (no blog URL left):

How can you talk like that to your daughter. I am and will always be a McCain supporter, when my kids got up this morning(12, 14 & 15) that were sad that Obama became president and started to say negative things about him. I stopped them and said he is now the president of the united state – your UNITED state and you must support him while he is president. Obama would be disappointed in you and your daughter from what I have heard he wants a united america not a divided. Your still divided even though he won. BTW my father is a great man and he loves his grandchildren and cares deeply about that generation and he can’t text either.

Here was my response:

@Kelly – I’m not sure what you are talking about. I don’t say negative things about McCain the person, but I do not agree with his ideology. These are the thoughts/words of a 14 yo and the culmination her own opinion after reading the newspaper, watching 3 debates, discussing the issues with her classmates and watching a documentary on both candidates. The text comment came from her not me and it was her interpretative comment of her believing that he doesn’t get her generation. My father doesn’t text either and he cares about the future too. Please know that we are unified in the fact that we love our kids and our country. There is nothing divisive about that.

Sorry you took offense.

Here was her reply:

I am sorry I took offense too. I hope that my worst fears for him becoming president and your greatest hopes for him becoming president are not the same – because america will never become united.

Snippets from the conversation that ensued:

From: Annabassham

@Kelly – I want a united America, but I am also on the defensive for Obama. I know (personally) some right-wing extremists who think Obama is a terrorist and hope he will be assassinated. I thought McCain’s concession speech was gracious, but I couldn’t believe the boos and negative comments I heard leaving the mouths of his supporters. My point is that there are people who will remain “divided” but as long as the majority of us come together and take responsibility for change, we will see the positive changes our country desperately needs.

I hope that we all can really COME TOGETHER and get over petty arguments under Barack Obama’s leadership.

From:  David Huston

@Kelly – Great job to you too, as you exemplify the worst part of the Republican party: the part that seeks to twist any remotely Democrat-supporting sentiment into a personal attack, and then retaliate against nothing.

And here’s our friend Kelly again:

@Dave Huston – anyone who starts a post out with now we don’t have to move to Canada exemplifies the worst of the democratic party! Enough said; I’ll just have to wait and see if my greatest fear come true.

@ Anna And that has nothing to do with thinking that Obama is a terrorist and anyone who want anyone to be assassinated is not a TRUE american.

We at Bacon Is My Enemy have no enemies today and would like to ask Kelly to come back with her negative comments on the next blog post that I write about a tender mother/daughter moment. It seems to create twice the amount of blog traffic, so thanks Kelly, I appreciate the extra hits.

All I can say is that if feeling all good inside about having hope for the future of a unified America under Obama is wrong, then I don’t wanna be RIGHT.

Thanks for your kind words and for reading my blog.  Big hugs to everyone on all sides of the political fence … I’ve got nothing but love.

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